Calendar scrolling using the new outlook view.

Anonymous
2023-07-31T01:09:24+00:00

hello, i just turned on the new outlook view and in the Calander you can no longer us your mouse wheel to just scroll up and down. is there a setting for that or is that just how it works now. i do see arrows where you can click to go and down, but the mouse wheel works so much better. thx

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-11-14T05:22:26+00:00

    Just how many versions of "Outlook" are they going to make? None of which have feature parity with the previous version!

    Outlook 'desktop' which comes with Office 365: A giant HOG of a bloated program. Herky jerky animations and a terrible UI.

    Windows Mail (and calendar): What started off as a very promising project, had vertical sticky monthly scrolling for the calendar, the mail app had a unified inbox... etc. But they stopped updating it for this new web version...

    Outlook Web: Bare bones browser version. Probably best used if you don't have your cell phone or laptop or a computer and absolutely have to log in to see your mail and calendar. I guess you can log in from a web browser and get a crappy experience.

    The NEW Outlook (basically Web) Preview Beta: Also a messy UI made to mimic Outlook Desktop, which was also messy. No unified folders. No calendar scrolling. Can't copy paste events. I guess microsoft wants consistency in their UI but the problem is when your UI is poorly thought out to begin with, why then be consistent with that UI???? Change it!

    The main problem with Microsoft's dozens of mail/calendar 'teams' is they are keeping the poor layout and doing away with the features which people use. Instead of, doing away with the poor layout and keeping the features which people use. Make no mistake, this New Outlook will not last and they will stop updating it in early 2025 and bring in yet another beta/preview mail/calendar app with only 78.6% of the features which the outgoing incomplete outlook had. lol. Yes once again they will have a feedback section essentially consisting of thousands of suggestions to just incorporate the old basic features.

    This is absolutely FASCINATING seeing this giant company fail like this over and over and over again.

    For those of you who know.. there is clearly a cultural problem at Microsoft, from TOP to bottom.

    Look at who is at the top... look at who are now the custodians of Microsoft.. are you surprised?

    This is not just incompetence, it's much worse.. its apathy.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-11-13T23:23:12+00:00

    This really stinks! Most dreaded words in the English language: "Improved for you convenience". This makes this calendar useless as far as I'm concerned and I won't use it.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-11-10T16:13:39+00:00

    The scrolling is a feature that they had but removed in the latest "new" Outlook. We are probably not going to get the scrolling unless there is a lot of pressure from the users. When I first noticed it, I thought it was something I need to adjust in the settings. When I finally contacted Microsoft, I was told that it was removed. It was because the new Outlook application was being designed to look and work like the online version. The online version of the Outlook calendar does not have the scrolling feature. So, they took it out of the desktop application.

    It just sounds like lazy programmers. They want they want the two to look and work the same. So, instead of figuring out a way to add the feature to the online version, they took it out of the desktop version.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-10-30T15:43:46+00:00

    I have started using a Mac and let me tell you, their Calendar (and email) suite is amazing. Exactly what I want in Mail and Calendar. Yes, vertical sticky scrolling in the month view, search, rules, copy paste events, full search without restrictions. Color coding, reminders, custom reminders... I can go on, but it's amazing. It is also free, comes with every Mac, no stupid subscription required. Best part is they have never discontinued it for a "new" version for as many decades as Apple has been around. They just build into the software with new features every year without taking away features and starting from bare bones scratch. It's a super polished piece of software.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-10-30T15:28:28+00:00

    "Correct, the wheel scrolls the view but won't move you to the next month.

    New Outlook is built using Outlook on the web scripts and that is how it works in Outlook on the web."

    This is a horrible answer to a horrible lack of consideration to Outlook users everywhere. So, basic mouse scrolling on a calendar is really a difficult and unreasonable ask of Microsoft?! You have got to be kidding me!

    It's not like we are asking for Microsoft to add something new. This is a feature that has been there for years.

    Now here is something new. I posted to a previous response that you could still use the older version. Now my older version won't work. As soon as it loads, it quits. If you try to reload, it asks if you want to start in "safe" mode. If you say yes, it will start in safe mode, but if you close it and restart it in normal mode, it quits again. I wonder if MS has don something to disable the old version to force the use of the new one.

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